The August 12, 2026 total solar eclipse in Cueva del Hierro (Cuenca)

Here the thermometer tells its own story. Cueva del Hierro records the lowest average minimum of every municipality in this set of pages, 13.1 degrees on 12 August, and the mildest high too at 25.6, a direct consequence of its 1,435 metres of altitude, sixth among the 121 municipalities of Cuenca inside the band. That elevation also gave it the best horizon of the leading group: 6.8 degrees of clearance under a Sun that at maximum, 20:31:38, stood barely 6 degrees up. No terrain was going to get in the way.

And yet the climate penalised it. Its 54.2% of clear years in the 1996-2025 series falls below the provincial median and ranks 87th of 121, so the municipality with the best geometry in the Serrania was, statistically, among the poorer bets inside its own province. With the total phase open from 20:30:53 to 20:32:24, 91 seconds, it tied the Cuenca maximum and scored 79.4 points. The Sun set at 21:10:04 without ever finishing its uncovering.